BAFTA reveals 2018 Television Craft Award winners

BAFTA has announced the winners of this year’s British Academy Television Craft Awards, with five programmes; Blue Planet II, Chris Packham: Asperger’s and me, Game of Thrones, The Crown, and World War One Remembered: Passchendaele each picking up two accolades.

Three Girls, the drama based on true-life events in Rochdale, won three awards: Philippa Lowthorpe was awarded in the Director: Fiction category, the second BAFTA of her career. Úna Ní Dhonghaíle received the BAFTA for Editing: Fiction and Nicole Taylor was recognised in the Writer: Drama category.

Two episodes of Blue Planet II were recognised. Graham Wild, Tim Owens and Kate Hopkins, the sound team behind the episode ‘Coral Reefs’, received the award for Sound: Factual; and the camera team for ‘One Ocean’ took home the BAFTA for Photography: Factual.

The BBC documentary Chris Packham: Asperger’s and Me received awards for Charlie Russell for Director: Factual and Will Grayburn for Editing: Factual.

Game of Thrones received its first BAFTAs: in the Costume Design category for Michele Clapton and in the Production Design category for Deborah Riley and Rob Cameron. While The Crown was recognised in the Sound: Fiction category and director of photography Adriano Goldman received the award for Photography and Lighting: Fiction.

The teams behind World War One Remembered: Passchendaele, the commemorations marking the centenary of the Battle of Passchendaele, were awarded the BAFTA for Entertainment Craft Team and director Julia Knowles received the award for Director: Multi-Camera.

The award for Breakthrough Talent was awarded to writers (and BAFTA Breakthrough Brits) Daisy May Cooper and Charlie Cooper for their comedy series This Country.